A star in the white-ball format, Glenn Maxwell has not yet ‘given up’ on his hopes for Test cricket.

“I haven’t given up on Tests,” Maxwell was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald upon his arrival here after being released from the T20I squad that is currently playing in India.

“I think I’ve just got to be realistic about the timings of the way I’ve been playing my white-ball cricket.”

Having made his Test debut against India in Hyderabad in 2013, the white-ball specialist has only played seven matches in the longest format in his career and his last appearance was in 2017. He has a batting average of 26.07 and has taken eight wickets at 42.62.

It remains to be seen if Maxwell is named in their Test squad for the three-match home series against Pakistan beginning in Perth on December 14.

“You play a World Cup and then you don’t play any Shield cricket, you play at the back end of summer in white ball and don’t play any Shield cricket, so it’s just the way it’s gone over the last 10 years of my career really.”

Matthew Wade, who is leading Australia in the ongoing T20I series against India, backed Maxwell to shine in the longest format of the game. “I think it is just mentally and a little bit physically, he’s come back from quite a bad injury,” Wade said of Maxwell’s state of exhaustion.

With inputs from PTI